“So glad Tim Allen isn’t voicing Buzz Lightyear. The LAST MAN STANDING star is vocal about his conservative values, which some people note as the main reason for Evans taking the reins. Some TOY STORY fans have speculated why Allen was not invited back to reprise his iconic role. However, Chris Evans will voice Buzz in the upcoming movie. And it is really essential for the character,” MacLane concluded.ĭespite this distinction, fans pushed back when they learned of Evans’ casting.īuzz will hit the big screen again in Pixar’s upcoming animated prequel, LIGHTYEAR, four movies, and several TV shorts later.
“And there was a lot of comedy and serious action stuff that we’d seen Chris Evans do and and had always exemplified, and it was always impressed by his ability to not seem too goofy, but be able to laugh at himself. I knew that the character was iconic enough that you needed someone with the gravitas and seriousness and the balance of comedy and drama for the actor was a very, very narrow window of actor that could do it. You need to kind of step back and rethink it a little bit. “It is so hard to make a character that is a side character to a main character. “I wanted somebody who was not going to be goofy, funny,” he continued. “And I never wanted someone that was going to imitate that character’s voice I wanted something to be different. “Because (Buzz’s) voice is so iconic, you run the risk of imitation,” MacLane explained.
LIGHTYEAR is the origin story of the toy, and will feature Lightyear’s cinematic space adventure that later inspired the toys.ĭirector Angus MacLane said the decision to cast Evans over Tim Allen, who voiced Lightyear in TOY STORY, was to differentiate between human and toy. Pixar’s much anticipated LIGHTYEAR is due out later this summer with CAPTAIN AMERICA’s Chris Evans voicing popular astronaut made famous in the TOY STORY franchise.īuzz Lightyear in the TOY STORY movies is an action figure based on a famed astronaut. The Real Reason LIGHTYEAR Cast Chris Evans Over Tim Allen
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